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Classics

From the Renaissance to the nineteenth century, Latin and Greek were

compulsory subjects in almost all European universities, and most early

modern scholars published their research and conducted international

correspondence in Latin. Latin had continued in use in Western Europe long

afer the all o the Roman empire as the lingua ranca o the educated classes

and o law, diplomacy, religion and university teaching. e ight o Greek scholars to the West afer the all o Constantinople in 1453 gave impetus

to the study o ancient Greek literature and the Greek New Testament.

Eventually, just as nineteenth-century reorms o university curricula were

beginning to erode this ascendancy, developments in textual criticism and

linguistic analysis, and new ways o studying ancient societies, especially

archaeology, led to renewed enthusiasm or the Classics. is collection

oers works o criticism, interpretation and synthesis by the outstanding

scholars o the nineteenth century.

La Cité Antique

La Cité Antique is the best-known work by the nineteenth-century

French historian Fustel de Coulanges (1830–89), who pioneered an

objective approach to the study o history, and the use o primary rather

than secondary sources. is reissue is o the 1866 edition o the book,

which was originally published in 1864 while the author was proessor o

history at Strasbourg. It explores the inuence o religion and kinship onthe development o the laws and political institutions o ancient Greek

and Roman societies. Coulanges describes many aspects o Greek and

Roman amily law including marriage, divorce, adoption, property and

inheritance. Afer giving an account o the social organisation o cities,

their administration, and the rights and duties o citizens, he outlines the

processes o institutional change and the evolving power relationships

between the social classes. Finally he discusses the eects o Christianity in

the political sphere.

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La Cité AntiqueÉtude sur le Culte, le Droit, les Institutions de

la Grèce et de Rome

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Published in the United States o America by Cambridge University Press, New ork

www.cambridge.orgInormation on this title: www.cambridge.org/9781108011716

© in this compilation Cambridge University Press 2009

is edition rst published 1866is digitally printed version 2009

ISN 978-1-108-01171-6 Paperback

is book reproduces the text o the original edition. e content and language reectthe belies, practices and terminology o their time, and have not been updated.

Cambridge University Press wishes to make clear that the book, unless originally publishedby Cambridge, is not being republished by, in association or collaboration with, or

with the endorsement or approval o, the original publisher or its successors in title.

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